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Show + The Garden of pleafant Flowers. moneths, our Gardens are furnithed with the varictie of one fort or aug) ght,if ther: thereftin Autumne,that fo they might procure the moredeli yeelding their beauty both early and late, when{carce any other flowy) are found toadorne them. The Names. I fhall not neede to trouble you with an idletale of the name of Crocy) which were to little purpofe, norto reiterate the former names impofi vponthem ; fetit fufficethat theficteft namesare giuen them , that may¢ ftinguith them one from another; onely this I muft giue you to ynderftan that the gold yellow crocus or Saffron flower,is the trucCrecss Atafiacus I thewed before; and that neither the yellow ftript,or cloth of gold (whid wee focall after the Dutch name Gand Laken) isthe true A4efiacus, as fon fuppofe; and thatthe great white Saffron flower, by reafonofhis likenel vnto the gold yellow,is called Crocus albas Mafiact facte, orfacie lutei,tht is, The white Saffton flowerthatis like the Mefiacus or yellow. The Vertues. The Gardenofpleafantflowers. os mixedorftriped together very variably, quickly fading as! {aid before: the feede is enclofed in {mall cods, fo thinneand. tran{parent, that one maycafily fee, and tell the feeds as they lye,which are ofa brownifhred colour: the rooteis fmall, blackifhand round, wrapped inathickeskinneor huske , made like vntoa net, or fomewharlike vnto theroote ofthe clorh of gold’Crocus : whenthe plantisin flower, it is’foundto haue two rootes one aboue another, whereofthe vppermoft is firme and found, and the vndermoft loofe and fpengic, ia like manneras is found inthe rootes ofdiucrs Ox. chides or Satyrions, Bee-flowers and thelike, and without any goodtafte, or {weer2 neffeatall, although Clufiusfaith otherwife. Sifprinchinm Mabyitenienm, The Barbary Nut. There is another ofthiskinde , not differing from the formerin any other notable part, but in the flower, whichin this is ofa delayed purplifh red colour, hauing in each ofthe three lowerleauesa white {pot , in ftead ofthe yellow in the former, but areas foone fading as they. ; ThePlace. The former doe gtow very plentifully in many parts both ofSpaine and Thetrue Saffron (forthe others are of no vfe) which wee call Englil, Portugall, where Guillaume Boel; a Dutch man heretofore remembred Saffron, is of very great vfe both for inward and outward difeafes, andy often in this Booke, found them , ofthefundry colours {pecified , whereas Clufius maketh mention but ofone colotir that he found. heart, both inthe fmall Pockes, Meafels, Plague, Iaundife, and manyott ftand, and brought fir into the Lowe-Countries : butthey are both very very cordiall, yfedto expell any hurtfull or venemous vapoursfrom th difeafes, as alfo to ftrengthen and comfort any cold or weake members, rr Cuar. XVIII. The other was found anthat part ofBarbary,where Fez and Morocco do. tender,and will hardly abide the hard Winters ofthele colder regions, The Times The firft dowreth in May and une, the Jaft not vatill Augnft, Sifprinchium. The Spanith Nut. The Names. Can doe no otherwifethen make a peculiar Chapter of this plant, becaule itt The nameSi/yrischium is generally impofed vponthis plant, by all au- [este a Crocealthough in the roote it come fomewhatneare vnto that kinde tht thors that haue written thereof, thinking icto bee the rightsSi/jrinchiaws of becaufeitdoth not belongto that Family : and although the flower thereofdoth mt! faith it is called by in Spaine, [haue beene credibly enformed by theaforenamedBoel, thatthis rooteis not fo called in thofe parts ; but that the final orcommonftript Crocusis called Wezelbs, which is {weete intafte, and is netted ; But in no other part agreeing with any the delineaments ofa Saft flower,and therefore could not bethruftinto the Chapter amongft them ; neitherct I place it in the forefront of the Chapterof the Irés4u/b0/2, or bulbous Flowerdelucs refemble a Flowerdeluce, yetin that no other parts thereof doe fitly agree thereunti I haue rather chofen tofeate it by it felfe betweene them both. as partaking of boti Theophraftus : but concerning the Spanifh name Nozelbs, which Clufius defired very greedily by the Shepheards and Children , and that the roote ofthis Sifprinchinms or Spanifh Nut, is without any tafte, and is not eaten. natures, and fo mayferuein ftead ofa bridge, to pafle from theone tothe other, tha Andagaine, that there isnot: twokindes, although it grow greater, and luce, which fhall follow in the next Chapter by themfelues, ie The Spanifh Nut hath two long and narrow, foftand {mooth greene leanes, lyitl for the moft part vpon the groun and fometimes ftanding vp, yet bending dow wards; betweene thefe leaues rifeth vpa {mall ftalke, halfea foore high, hawiingdiueh fmooth foft greene leaues vpon it, as if they wereskinnes, through whieh the fill paffeth 3 atthe toppe whereof ftand diuers lowers 5 tifing one after another, and nd all fowring at once for feldome hall you haue aboue one flower blowneat acim each whereofdoth fo quickly pafle and fadeaway,that one maywell fay, that itisbi one dayes flower, or rather the flowerof a few houres: the flowerit felfe hath nist wafhing of the Sea water, sincthe moifture and ayre ofthe Sea, caufeth the is, from the Crocus or Saffron flower, tothe /ris bulbofa or bulbous rooted:Flowert with more flowers, in thofe places that areneare the Sea, where both the ground to beemorefertile,’ ‘This I thought good, fromthetrue relation ofa friend, to giue the world to vnderftand,that truth might expelerrour. The Vertues. Thefe haue not been knowne to bee vied to any Phyficall purpofe, but wholly neglected,vnleffe fome may eate them, as Clufius reporteth. leaues,like vntoa Flowerdeluce, whereof the three that falldowne, them a yellow fpot: the other three , which in the Flowerdeluces haueineach? are hollow a ridged, couering the otherthree thatfall downe, in this ftand vpricht, and are parte at theends: the three that ftand vp inthe middleare {mall and foc the whole flow! is {mallerthen any Flowerdeluce, but offundry colours; for fomeé até ofan excellet skie colour blew, others of a Violet purple, otliers of2 darker purple colour, and fom white, and niapy others mixed,either pale blew and deepepurple, or Witteaod bit mixé Cuar |